Translating books into films has to be difficult enough, but translating a comedic one must be the pinnacle of problematic for screenwriters. First, they must decide if they'll keep the book's sense ...

In this film Johnny Depp appears as Mortdecai, a British dolt who emerges from a series of potentially disastrous scrapes unscathed. Recalling the incredible luck of Peter Seller’s Chief Inspector ...

Up until Thursday, due mostly to conflicts created by my coverage of the Sundance Film Festival, I had managed to avoid what most people had already condemned as a pretty lousy movie, the Johnny Depp ...

Thumbnail: Johnny Depp's scenery-chewing lead occasionally grates, but Mortdecai works as a low-stakes comic mystery that is refreshingly aimed squarely at adult moviegoers. It does not deserve the ...

That’s it. If you read it out loud, you sound like a cult member proclaiming the imminent return of an ancient deity in the body of his human prophet: “Johnny Depp is Mortdecai! Mortdecai! January 23!

“Mortdecai” is mortdifying, a mortdal sin of a movie that’s headed for the cinematic mortduary. Bertie Wooster meets Austin Powers in the person of the title character, an English lord played by a ...

I admit to being a big fan of watching glamorous movie stars gadding around world capitols in the comedic pursuit of art treasures; I spent countless hours glued to the TV as a kid soaking in comic ...

Should the recent surge in male facial hair as a fashion accessory stall in 2015, barbers would be within their rights to blame “Mortdecai,” a perky but obstinately unfunny heist caper with a hero ...

If you're going to see one movie about a dandy, mustachioed gentleman on a caper involving stolen artwork and featuring an appearance by Jeff Goldblum, make it "The Grand Budapest Hotel." However, if ...

The indelible Charlie Mortdecai, literary offspring of the English novelist Kyril Bonfiglioli, was featured in three marvelously funny novels before his creator died, of cirrhosis, at the age of 56.

Matt Goldberg has been an editor with Collider since 2007. As the site's Chief Film Critic, he has authored hundreds of reviews and covered major film festivals including the Toronto International ...